Zhong Wuliang, who was originally not very concerned about Guo Jiatang's words, looked at the entire cold and quiet cottage and had to doubt.

"Fourth brother, this posture is a little wrong!"

"Second brother also saw it?" Guo Jiatang said solemnly

"Hurry up and get out, I don't know if it's too late."

…

At the moment when Guo Jiatang finished speaking, Zhang Rui's ambush soldiers hidden around came out one after another to surround them.

"Who are you?" Looking at the ambush soldiers who poured out to surround him, Zhong Wuliang couldn't help but ask with some fear.

At the same time, he quietly said to Guo Jiatang beside him: "Fourth brother, have you noticed them?" ”

"Yes, there are twenty-three archers in front and behind, dozens of sword and shield soldiers, and quite a few pikemen. Not to mention anything else, just these people, we don't have enough people to shoot twice for archers. Try to negotiate with them. Guo Jiatang whispered to Zhong Wuliang

"Hmm."

Suddenly, Zhong Wuliang found Du Mu standing next to an emaciated young man, so he said to Du Mu: "Du Mu, what does this mean." ”

I saw Du Mu look at Zhong Wuliang, pointed to Liu Muxiu who was not far away, and said, "You better ask the three masters!" ”

As soon as they heard Du Mu's words, Zhong Wuliang and Guo Jiatang looked in the direction that Du Mu pointed out, and sure enough, they saw Liu Muxiu.

"What's the matter, does the big boss know the thoughts of the two of us? To eradicate us? Zhong Wuliang said in his heart, so he shouted at Liu Muxiu

"Three masters, what do you mean by this, is it that the big boss wants to eradicate me and others?"

After listening to Zhong Wuliang's words, Liu Muxiu could only say helplessly

"The two masters misunderstood, I was also captured to join Zhang Rui and Zhang Liuge's bandit team. The sixth brother said, if you disarm and surrender, you can leave you alive. If you don't succeed, continuing to resist will be a dead end. ”

"If you want us to disarm and surrender, how can we trust you." Guo Jiatang said after listening to Liu Muxiu's words

At this time, Liu Muxiu looked at Zhang Rui. I saw Zhang Rui walk out and say to the two of them: "You are the second leader Zhong Wuliang and the third leader Guo Jiatang?" ”

"Yes, we are."

"Okay, I, Zhang Rui, don't want to be a trapped beast fight. As long as you hand over all your silver taels, I promise to leave you alive. As for whether you want to come to me for revenge in the future, I'm not afraid, at most I will fight again. ”

"But if you don't want to, I'll send you to Hades now. It's just a little effort, and it's the same when the time comes. ”

Zhong Wuliang and the others were relieved when they heard that they were just asking for silver and could still live.

At this time, Guo Jiatang said again: "What if we put down our weapons and you still want to kill us?" Can you get us out of the cottage and we'll give you the money? ”

"You may not believe it." Zhang Rui replied, and then raised his hand and ordered: "Archer, prepare." ”

Listening to Zhang Rui's order, the twenty-three people with bows and arrows all raised the archers in their hands at the same time, just waiting for Zhang Rui to shoot the arrows in their hands.

The cold light of the many cold iron arrows flashed under great pressure on the besieged bandits. At this moment, some novice bandits could no longer bear the pressure, threw down the knives in their hands, knelt on the ground and shouted:

"I surrender, don't kill me."

Surrender seemed to be contagious, and the new bandits soon threw down their knives and knelt there to surrender, while the old bandits also threw away their knives and knelt there after looking at each other.

Guo Jiatang looked at the bandits kneeling on the ground, and felt a little angry. In the end, he threw away the knife in his hand and stood there straight.

Zhang Rui instructed the people around him to take away all their knives and tie them up one by one.

………

In the next few days, Zhang Rui was very busy. In addition to holding martial arts examinations as usual, they also had to interrogate the hidden silver of these bandits.

At the same time, Zhang Rui felt that there was another very important thing for Du Mu to do. He was asked to go to Macau to buy a fine flintlock pistol and see if he could buy some artillery. Let's see if we can buy some gunpowder and have some suitable craftsmen dig some back.

The Manchu army was not without firearms and recognized their power. At that time, Dolgon made a rule: advanced weapons such as cannons and firearms at that time were only limited to the use of the Eight Banners Army, and the green battalion of the Han Army was not allowed to use them.

In order to prevent the Han people, the Han people were not allowed to obtain advanced firearms when they rebelled. The Manchu control of firearms was unusually strict. This is why Dai Zi was exiled to Ningguta in Liaodong instead of receiving a reward after offering a series of guns to Kang Mazi. In this way, he has to thank Kangxi, and if it is Qianlong, he can't say that he will be beheaded all over the house.

That is, now that the Manchu Qing Dynasty is fighting everywhere, the Manchu battalion is equipped with more muskets. Even so, Yongzheng also indicated: "With Manchurian heavy cavalry shooting, do not specialize in bird guns and waste bows and arrows, there are those who are familiar with guns and arrows immediately, and they are reluctantly superior." ”

By the late Qianlong period, the major wars in China were slowly over. When the Manchus were able to use "bow horses" to take out those small groups of enemies, firearms would also be slowly eliminated from the Eight Banners.

In the end of the Manchu Dynasty, the Manchus attached great importance to firearms, but also looked down on firearms, and had to guard against and strictly control the use of firearms to prevent them from falling into the hands of the Han people.

So it's not that the Manchus didn't make advanced and sophisticated muskets, but they were all in the collection pavilion of the imperial palace or were taken by Qianlong to beat rabbits and so on.

Zhang Rui gave Du Mu 20,000 taels of silver tickets as purchase money, and gave him an additional 10,000 taels of silver tickets to use to deal with those officials. At the same time, ten more sword and shield soldiers were sent to him to protect his safety along the way.

Du Mu was very moved by Zhang Rui's trust and said that he would do his best to buy back what Zhang Rui wanted.

As for why Du Mu was allowed to go, it was really Zhang Rui's helpless move. Although Liu Muxiu is more shrewd and capable, the operation of the entire cottage is inseparable from him. I can't walk away, and it's a problem for the other subordinates to even count. Du Mu is more suitable.

Du Mu is a native of Qingyuan, who can speak Cantonese, and he can also find some locals to communicate with in Macao. He has been tested as a child and can write and calculate, and he still hates people.

Looking at the 30,000 taels of silver tickets that Du Mu took away, Zhang Rui couldn't help but feel distressed in his heart. Some of his own lucky ones were only 115,400 taels of silver tickets, and this time they went to 30,000 taels.

At present, there are 2,460 taels of gold and 46,860 taels of silver ingots in the cottage silver vault. The broken silver was five thousand seven hundred and ninety-six twenty-eight coins and six coins, and the copper coins were eight hundred and eighty-five and seven hundred and ninety-five wen.

Thinking about this gang of bandits wandering in Guangdong and Hunan over the years, fortunately, all the belongings obtained by kidnapping and ransom were all owned by him, and Zhang Rui was happy in his heart.

"Hey, I'm still sad about the 30,000 taels of silver, I'm so greedy. These lovely bandits can't bear to kill them. ”

...

Before Du Mu left, the assessment results finally came out. According to the rules of martial arts ranking, the small flag first and then the secondary flag.

Sword and Shield Soldiers:

The first flag: the small flag is Zhou stone, and the secondary flag is Zhang Shugen

The second flag: the small flag is Li Mugen, and the secondary flag is Li Goumao

The third flag: the small flag is Chen Dashi, and the deputy flag is Niu Dazhuang

The fourth flag: the small flag is Liu Shishi, and the deputy flag is Chen Laicai

Fifth flag: The small flag is Zhao Liugou, and the deputy flag is Li Tiehammer

Sixth flag: The small flag is Zhang Jinyin, and the secondary flag is a thin dog

Seventh Flag: The small flag is Dai Seventh Brother, and the deputy flag Pang Xiaolong (one person is missing)

Pikemen:

The first flag: small flag Li Sigou, deputy flag Chen Laijin (plus one person)

The second flag: small flag Zhu Yan, deputy flag Liu Yan (plus one person)

The third phase: Feng Dong of the small flag, Zhang Qingshui of the deputy flag

At present, all the bows and arrows are taken over by Li Deyun, and there is no deputy flag for the time being

The scout is currently mainly responsible for Hong Hu, with Cheng Long and Li Decai as assistants.